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Back in 2017, the families of children in some of California’s worst-performing public schools sued the state for failing to teach low-income black and Hispanic children how to read. This led to a legal settlement in which the state’s 75 worst-performing elementary schools agreed to invest in evidence-based reading instructionthat is, in training teachers to
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Retailers in crime-riddled San Francisco are abandoning their self-checkout lanes in a defensive retailing move to counter surging thefts in the city. A Safeway supermarket in San Francisco’s Fillmore District and a Target on Mission Street closed their self-checkout kiosks to customers a change that other stores across the troubled city may follow, SFGate reported.
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Loading… Loading… The major cryptocurrencies displayed a mixed performance on Sunday evening as Bitcoin, the worlds largest cryptocurrency, seemed to be undergoing a correction, while some altcoins were experiencing significant gains.CryptocurrencyGains +/-Price (Recorded 9:30 p.m. EST)Bitcoin BTC/USD -4.37%$41,846Ethereum ETH/USD +5.17%$2,351Dogecoin DOGE/USD -3.88%$0.095 What Happened: Bitcoins rally experienced a temporary pause on Sunday as it briefly
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Ratings agencyMoody’sslapped a downgrade warningon China’s credit rating on Tuesday,saying costs to bail out localgovernmentsand state firmsandcontrol itsproperty crisiswould weigh on the world’s No. 2 economy. The downgrade reflects growing evidence that authorities will have to provide more financial support for debt-laden local governments and state firms, posing broad risks to China’s fiscal, economic and
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This story also ran on NPR. It can be republished for free. Angela M. Du Bois, a retired software tester in Durham, North Carolina, wasnt looking to replace her UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plan. She wasnt concerned as the Dec. 7 deadline approached for choosing another of the privately run health insurance alternatives to original Medicare.
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Loading… Loading… Speaking at BenzingasFintech Deal Day event in New York in November, panelists discussed data-driven decision-making and risk management in FinTech. Andr Beganski, a journalist at Decrypt Media, moderated the discussion, which featured panelists Antonio Goncalves from Devexperts and dxFeed, Paul Fahey of Northern Trust Asset Servicing, and Traci Mabrey from Dow Jones. Fahey
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Loading… Loading… Moodys Corporation, the ratings agency and research firm, has become the first financial services company to leverage the power of Generative AI (GenAI) to launch a customer research platform that it says will save users hours every day. The company announced on Tuesday the launch of Moodys Research Assistant, a first-of-its-kind search and
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